Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horse heights no longer; free-wheeling and the radio have pried men's feet from off the old wood-stove. Men go their several ways. The covers of the old "Gazette" live and move on the screen; and the tabloids, shock for shock, outdistance and undersell their progenitor. Upstart terriers have worried the old bloodhound to his death...
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...Keith's-"Murders in the Rue Morgne,"-screen adaptation of Poe's classic...
...switches and buttons. These control the electrically driven shutters in the skylight overhead, the concealing lights, the velvet curtains and the multiple drops. These drops comprise three blackboards which disappear into the files, allowing sketches to be retained and obviating the delays of erasing, also a new type movie screen, and a platform containing the sound apparatus. This gives free usage of the stage, allowing it to be cleared entirely, or used in any degree of completeness...
...America today. All entertainment is artificial, it can be obtained with no more effort than the muscular activity involved in loosening the purse strings. Theatres, dances, movies, speakeasies, tabloids, all the conventional forms of amusement are at the beck and call of every man. His mind is a blank screen upon which no impressions are made; his intellect has been allowed to lie fallow for years. Beyond this there is the acceleration of every life. There is no relaxation, no tranquility, no time to take stock, and no stock to take. There is only the surpassing desire to make money...